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CARPENTER, SILAS HUNTINGTON, detective, police administrator, and magistrate; b. 29 Jan. 1854 in Brownsburg, Lower Canada, son of Thomas Carpenter and Margery Sweeney; m. first 1874 Phoebe Gilbert; m. secondly 1896 Clara Trollope, and they had at least six children; d. 1 July 1916 in Banff, Alta.
Silas Carpenter was educated at a local school in Brownsburg and at the Ottawa Collegiate Institute. In 1880 he was appointed constable on the Montreal police force. Promoted sergeant two years later, he was transferred to the detective squad. He remained with the police until 1890, when he resigned to work as a private detective for the Canadian Secret Service Agency in Montreal, a firm he later owned and operated. During this period Carpenter was occasionally employed as a private detective by the federal and Quebec governments. These assignments included acting as a bodyguard for visiting royalty and other dignitaries.
In 1894 a municipal inquiry into corruption and patronage in the Montreal police force called for the establishment of an autonomous detective bureau, whose head would have a free hand in the selection, training, and promotion of his staff. Two years later Carpenter became the first chief of the Montreal detective force at an annual salary of $2,000.
As chief, Carpenter was quick to introduce new techniques in the detection and apprehension of criminals. These innovations included increased cooperation between law enforcement agencies in Canada and the United States and the Bertillon system of identification, which involved the taking of bodily measurements and the description of particular markings or scars, as well as the expanded use of photographs of criminals. During the years that followed, Carpenter was the central figure in many sensational cases in the city. The Montreal Daily Star described him as a "born detective" who thoroughly understood the "criminal character." In 1908 he was badly wounded by a shotgun blast when trying to arrest John Dillon, the "Mance Street murderer."
Carpenter became a leading and influential supporter of the Chief Constables' Association of Canada, which was founded in 1905 to encourage closer ties among police departments, establish a uniform system of police administration, and promote legislation to suppress crime. At its annual convention of 1906 he proposed that Canada adopt the American practice of subjecting habitual criminals to indeterminate periods of imprisonment. Carpenter claimed that habitual criminals could never be reformed and should not be released as long as they remained a threat to the public. His proposal was endorsed by his fellow chiefs. In 1910 he joined with other members of the association in protesting the overuse of clemency by the federal Department of Justice. As president of the association in 1913, he described immigrants of non-British origin as desirable citizens, but stressed that they should conform to Canadian customs.
From the beginning of Carpenter's appointment as chief of the detective bureau, there had been disagreement over the division of responsibility between the autonomous detective bureau and the uniformed police department. In 1909 an inquiry by judge Lawrence John Cannon* of the Superior Court of Quebec denounced the conflict as detrimental to the efficiency of law enforcement in the city. The subsequent decision by municipal authorities to make the chief of detectives subordinate to the superintendent of police led to Carpenter's resignation in 1912. Later that year he accepted a position as chief of the Edmonton police force at a salary of $4,000 a year.
In Edmonton civic politics at the time were often dominated by conflicts between moral reformers seeking to banish alcohol, gambling, and prostitution from their communities and those who opposed them. Carpenter's appointment followed the victory of a reform group. As chief, he mounted a campaign to rid the city of gambling dens and brothels. Not surprisingly, when a group opposed to the reformers won the civic elections of 1914, he was forced from office.
On 14 March 1914 Carpenter was appointed a stipendiary magistrate at Banff by the federal government. With the outbreak of war later that year, he served briefly as registrar of enemy aliens in Montreal until ill health forced his return to Banff. He was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal.
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When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?
A conversation with the biogeneticist Eric S. Lander about how genetic advances are transforming medical treatment.
Since the beginning of this century, the most rapidly advancing field in the life sciences, and perhaps in human inquiry of any sort, has been genomics. In 2001, rival teams from the Human Genome Project and the private company Celera each announced a draft sequence of the human genome—a map, essentially, of the 3 billion letters of DNA that make up a human being's genetic code. Eric S. Lander was one of the leaders of the public project. Now a professor at MIT and Harvard Medical School as well as the director of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, he discusses what researchers have learned since then, and how they may soon convert many forms of cancer from fatal afflictions to manageable chronic diseases.
James Fallows: Everyone has heard about remarkable breakthroughs in genomics, but it is hard for nonscientists to put them in perspective. By analogy to aerospace, are we still at a stage like the Wright brothers'? Or are we landing on the moon?
Eric S. Lander: A good analogy is the germ theory of disease. There was a sweep of progress from the fundamental understanding around 1870 that microbes caused infectious diseases, to the widespread availability after World War II of cheap penicillin that saved millions of lives. That took about 75 years. With genomics, we're maybe halfway through that cycle—something like the situation around 1915, when early, highly imperfect antibiotics were first introduced.
JF: What are the comparable next steps in genomics?
ESL: Before we could understand the genetic basis of inherited diseases and cancer, we first had to get a sequence of the human genome. The first 15 years of work [on the Human Genome Project], and about $3 billion of cost, was devoted to getting one sequence of one human being, to use as a starting reference point.
The next job was to go figure out how people with a disease, whether it's diabetes, schizophrenia, or a lung tumor, differ from that reference. That would require looking at the genomes of thousands and thousands of people to spot the changes. Remember that it took 15 years and $3 billion just to get the first person's sequence. The idea of doing that thousands of times over would have seemed crazy—except that an amazing transformation over the past 12 years brought down the cost of sequencing genomes by about a million-fold. That has allowed us to look at thousands of people and see the differences among them, to discover critical genes that cause cancer, autism, heart disease, or schizophrenia.
For the first time, after 25 years of genomics, we can finally pop the hood on the car and see what's wrong. The rate of progress is just stunning. As costs continue to come down, we are entering a period where we are going to be able to get the complete catalogue of disease genes. I think in another five or six years, we should have a complete catalogue. That is not a cure for disease. The next level will be seeing how these individual genetic components fit together, into circuits. You could say that right now we are discovering all the parts of a Boeing 747 and meticulously laying them out on the floor of a hangar. That's actually pretty impressive, to get all the parts! Still, the plane doesn't fly yet. This next generation of young scientists is figuring out the functional circuits into which all these parts fit.
JF: I feel lowbrow asking this, but on what timeline will patients see the results? Are these therapies decades away, or a few years?
ESL: It's important to define your goals. Therapeutic development has already been transformed by genomics. There are 800 different anticancer drugs in clinical development today. Cancer drugs used to be just cellular poisons, but almost all of these new ones are targeted at particular gene products that have been discovered.
But it's just a start. Some of the new cancer drugs can miraculously make tumors disappear. The problem is that, a year later, the cancer in many cases comes roaring back, because some of the cells have developed mutations that make them resistant. So genome scientists are now finding and targeting these mutations as well. Remember in the 1980s, when HIV was a fatal disease? What made it become a chronic, treatable disease? It was a combination of three drugs. Any one of those drugs alone, the virus could mutate its way around. But with the combination of all three, the chance that a virus could find its way around all of them was vanishingly small.
That's what's going to be happening in cancer. If you didn't know the HIV story, you would be depressed: you put all this work into the drug, and a year later the cancer has developed resistance. But if you understand that this is a game of probability, and there is only a finite number of cancer cells and each has only a certain chance of mutating, and if we can put together two or three independent attacks on the cancer cell, we win. If we invest vigorously in this and we attract the best young people into this field, we get it done in a generation. If we don't, it takes two generations. That's a very big difference.
JF: You mentioned schizophrenia alongside cancer. What is the genomic prospect for dealing with psychiatric diseases?
ESL: These diseases are the flip side of cancer. Cancer, you can study in a petri dish, because it's about cells growing. You can also inject cancer cells into a mouse and study them. With psychiatric disease, you can't do any of that. It is quintessentially a human condition.
That's why genomics, in which Big Data meets DNA, has been so important for approaching psychiatric disease. By looking at tens of thousands of patients, we've gone from knowing about zero genes underlying schizophrenia, as recently as five years ago, to knowing roughly 100 genes today. And the genes are beginning to make sense. Some look like they're telling us about particular kinds of calcium channels, others about particular ways that neurons grow.
I think the genetic clues as to what's actually wrong in human disease, together with experimental tools of manipulating neurons in animal models, may allow us to produce animals that mimic the real molecular biology of human disease. I'm not Pollyanna. This is not around the corner. It's not for next quarter; it's not for next year. We play for the long game. I don't want to overpromise in the short term, but it is incredibly exciting if you take the 25-year view.
JF: Any researcher can find ways to use extra money. But in genomics now, how significant is research funding as a limiting factor on progress toward therapies?
ESL: It is incredibly limiting right now. Young scientists who need to look at 100,000 cancer samples, or do functional tests inhibiting all the genes in the genome, or explore the use of chemicals in ways they never could before—they need an NIH [National Institutes of Health] that is able to place bets. With sequestration, and the NIH budget falling by about 25 percent in real terms over the past decade, the people reviewing grants naturally become more conservative. When there's less money, reviewers don't want to run the risk of wasting money on something that doesn't work.
I've got to tell you, if you aren't prepared to waste money on things that might not work, you can't possibly do things that are transformative. Because for every successful transformative idea, there's five times as many nonsuccessful transformative ideas. Nobody knows how to figure out in advance which ones they're going to be.
We've got an amazing cadre of young people coming into the field, and they have this cognitive dissonance right now. On the one hand they see unbelievable opportunities, and on the other hand, for the first time they see the nation decreasing funding for biomedical research.
In a very objective sense, this is a unique moment to be investing. This is the first decade when we can actually look across diseases in this systematic way. The idea that we're not investing to let a generation of young people try their riskiest, cleverest ideas is a tragedy. Because we've got such an opportunity.
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Ballad of a Mexican song
Dear Mexican:
I have always liked ranchera music. As of late, I have wanted to get deeper into it as far as the history, the culture and especially the songs and lyrics. The older I get, the more rancheras seem like poetry to me—sounds cursi, I know. So, what I was wondering is if you know a good book or two or website that I can read or check out? I went to my local library, and they didn't have a very good selection. And Borders or Barnes & Noble? Forget it. So, por favor and gracias, if you could.
—Houston Honey
Dear Wabette:
Of course Borders doesn't stock any books on rancheras—Borders doesn't exist anymore (and borders don't exist, period, but that's neither ni aqu' no allá). Most research on Mexican music concentrates on corridos, our ballad form that celebrates bad men, events and horses, but actual scholarly treatises on ranchera? Few and far between, alas—and nonexistent in English. Your best bet is Jos" Alfredo Jim"nez: Cancionero Completo, a songbook that contains all the compositions of the ranchera titan, whose hit parade makes the collected works of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and Woody Guthrie seem as voluminous as the output of Paper Lace. The libro also contains a great introductory essay by Mexican intellectual Carlos Monsiváis that puts Jim"nez in his proper context. As great as Cancionero Completo is, however, don't bother buying it: A used copy of is currently priced at $54 on Amazon.com, and while the book showcases the Robert Burns-esque bravado and orgullo that was the Jim"nez style, it ain't worth that price in this day and age, where you can just gather all the lyrics online. Then again, if you're willing to buy the book, I'm more than happy to sell my copy to you: I do need to finish off the down payment on my burro.
Upon first seeing me as a 2-week-old baby, my aunt Estrella screamed "ÁAy, que gringo!" But if you gotta call me a gabacho, so be it. I do have Mexican family (through marriage), and my brother (white like me) is currently down in Mexico City courting a beautiful Mexi nugget he met while attending college in Malaga, Spain. I get along well with many Mexicans, legal and illegal, but I hate that they aren't paying "the man" like I have to. Sure, I'm a little jealous, but I'd be all for Mexicans being awarded citizenship simply for walking over the border—as long as they paid their dues. I pay taxes that fund shit like keeping white trash from getting jobs, jobs they could get if I wasn't already paying for them to survive on junk food, and some undocumented border-jumping beaner wasn't there working for cheaper (and not helping me pay the dumb taxes to keep the trailer trash alive). I say assimilate, document, pay taxes and welcome. I'm writing an essay on wetbacks (fuck P.C. terms) and their effect on our country for better and worse. I've never heard of you until I read about 30 of your emails and responses on the net today. I'd like to know what's your opinion on the crossing over and its effect economically rather than socially?
—White Sox Winner!
Dear Gabacho:
The only opinion I have is on your language. "Beaner"? "Border-jumping"? "Wetback?" All these insults are so 1950s. Don't you know the current verboten insult toward Mexicans is "illegal" or "illegal immigrant"? And as for your concern about the undocumented paying their way, dontcha worry about that: The recent proposed amnesty bill crafted by a bunch of political pendejos is more punitive than habanero salsa marching through your alimentary canal toward your culo.


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BUSH: I believe accountability encourages parental involvement. We need to say to people that if you cannot meet standards, there has to be a consequence, instead of the soft bigotry of low expectations. One of the consequences is we allow parents to have choices.
GORE: I see a day where there are no failing schools; where the classrooms are small enough so the teacher can spend one-on-one time with each student. That means recruiting teachers. It means hiring bonuses to get 100,000 new teachers in the next four years. It means helping with interest-free bonding authority, so that we can build new schools and modernize classrooms. I want to give every middle class family a $10,000 deduction for college tuition to send their kids to college. If a school is failing, we work with the states to give them the authority and resources to close down that school and reopen it with a new principal, a new faculty.
Bush aides denounced the study as an �opinion paper� and called the findings �highly suspect,� pointing to a three-year Rand study released last summer that showed Texas test scores had dramatically improved between 1990 and 1996.
The new study analyzed a different set of data, which focused on the time Bush had been governor, 1994 to 1998.
BUSH: I have been the governor of a big state; I�ve made education my number one priority. That�s what governors ought to do. They ought to say this is the most important thing we do as a state. The federal government puts about 6% of the money up. They put about 60% of the strings, where you got to fill out paperwork. [A teacher] has to be a paperwork-filler-outer, most of it�s because of the federal government. What I want to do is to send flexibility and authority to the local folks so you can choose what to do with the money. One size does not fit all. I�d worry about federalizing education, if I were you.
The federal government can be a part, but don�t fall prey to all this talk about money here and money there because education is really funded at the local level; 94% comes from the local level.
The justification for the program has always been that school districts need compensation because the children of federal workers and people who work on military bases attend public schools that are supported by property taxes, but the federal government does not pay local taxes. But for decades, budget experts have put the impact aid program in the category of pork barrel politics.
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by Bakri Musa
17th September 2012
First of Five Parts: Education Blueprint – Transparent, But Not Bold Or Comprehensive
Education reform is inflicted upon Malaysians with the regularity of the monsoon. Like the storm, the havoc these "reforms" create lingers long after they have passed through.
In this five-part commentary I will critique the latest reform effort contained in Preliminary Report: Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 released on September 11, 2012. The first three essays will address the Blueprint's findings and recommendations; the fourth, its omissions, and the last, the flaws in the process with this particular reform effort.
The Blueprint clearly identifies the main problems and challenges at both the system and individual levels, but fails to analyze why or how they came about and why they have been let to fester. Consequently the recommendations are based more on conjecture rather than solid data; more towards generalities and the stating of goals rather than on specifics and how to achieve those goals. On the positive side, the goals and milestones (at least some of them) are clearly stated in quantifiable terms, so we would know whether they have been achieved going forward.
Despite extensive public participation and the inclusion of many luminaries (including foreign ones) on the panel, the report has many glaring omissions. It fails to address the particular challenges facing Islamic and rural national schools. This is surprising considering that the constituents in both streams are Malays, a politically powerful group. Even more pertinent, those schools regularly perform at the bottom quartile; they drag down the whole system. Improving them would go a long way in enhancing the entire system. Yet another omission is the failure to analyze and thus learn from earlier reform efforts.
This Blueprint does not live up to Najib Razak's assertion of being "bold, comprehensive and transparent." Transparent perhaps, but not bold or comprehensive! That is not surprising as the panel is dominated by civil servants. They have been part of the problem for so long that it would be too much to expect them now to magically be part of the solution.
Predictability of Education Reform
It is a particularly Malaysian obsession to reform its educational policy with the political season. Every new minister feels compelled to do it, as if to demonstrate his political manhood. Now it is Muhyiddin's turn.
Five years ago under Hishamuddin there was Langkah Langkah Ke Arah Cemerlangan (Steps Towards Excellence). Five years before that under Musa Mohamad was Pembangunan Pendidikan 2001-2010: Rancangan Bersepadu Penjana Cemerlangan Pendidikan (Education Development 2010-2011. Plan for Unity Through Educational Excellence). Notice the long pretentious titles and frequent use of the word "excellence."
In the meantime generations of young Malaysians, especially Malays, continue to pay the price for the follies of previous reforms, in particular the one in the 1970s that did away with English schools. Someone finally wizened up and brought back the teaching of English, albeit only in science and mathematics. Then just as we were adjusting to and recovering from that reversal, a new leader who thought himself smarter changed back the system!
This latest reform released on September 11, 2012, will prove to be the 9-11 of Malaysian education. The destruction may not be as dramatic visually and physically as the other 9-11, but the wreckage will be real and massive, with the havoc remaining long after to haunt current and future generations. The damage will be extensive, cumulative, and compounding.
As in the past, this time we are again being promised that this storm of a reform will wash away the thick polluted haze that has been hovering over our schools. Yes, the air will be clearer and fresher after a storm, and the birds will sing. Meanwhile however, we have to deal with ripped roofs, flood debris, and destructive landslides.
In compiling this Blueprint the government has commendably sought wide public participation and at great expense. The public in turn responded massively and enthusiastically, reflecting the angst over our education system. The panel however, did not sufficiently discern the difference between quantity and quality, and duly gave equal time to the bombasts as well as the wise.
The Challenge of Quality
This Blueprint, like earlier ones, is already getting rave reviews from the usual quarters. Just as predictably, a year or two from now even before any of the recommendations have been fully implemented, "scholars" from our public universities will declare through their "research" that the reforms have already produced the anticipated improvements!
We saw this when the policy of teaching science and mathematics in English was rescinded. Barely a year into the program and "scholars" from our public universities were already trumpeting the "remarkable" improvement in the science and mathematics scores especially among rural Malay students. With all those great improvements one wonders why we need another reform!
This new Blueprint was barely released when Muhyyiddin announced a new history curriculum, meaning, one written by UMNO hired hands. So much for the weight given to this reform and its objective of creating students capable of critical and independent thinking!
No one would argue with the Blueprint's objectives of improving access, quality, equity, unity, and efficiency. Consider quality; it is uppermost in everyone's mind. The government proudly parades the success rates at its national examinations, as with the accelerating number of A's scored. Yet when assessed by such external yardsticks as TIMSS and PISA, our students scored poorly. As the report acknowledges, they are at least two to three grades behind their counterparts in South Korea, and declining.
The panel glosses over this glaring anomaly and thus fails to draw the only and important conclusion: Obviously what we teach and how we test are substandard; worse, we are doing both wrong!
If your home thermometer says you do not have a temperature but at the hospital you register a high fever, then you should get rid of your thermometer lest you would be dangerously misled in the future. If we wish our students to be in the top third in PISA and TIMSS, then we should first dispense with the current curriculum and testing as they do not correlate (in fact inversely correlated) with those international measurements.
Consider another objective, to have our students be bilingual in Malay and English. I agree with that; the problem is how to achieve it. The panel addresses the issue generally, but the kampong boy in Ulu Kelantan faces a vastly different problem in learning English vis-a-vis the diplomat's son in Bukit Tunku; likewise a Tamil girl on an estate school in Ulu Tiram learning Malay to a penghulu's daughter at a national school in Ulu Trengganu.
It would be wiser to focus first on the problem areas, as with improving the Malay proficiency of students in vernacular schools and the English skills of Malays in national schools. Correct both and you would go a long way in improving the system's overall performance, and in the process satisfy many.
As the challenges are very different; the solutions too must necessarily be different. For vernacular schools especially in areas where Malay is not widely spoken, devoting more hours to Malay and having bilingual (Malay and the vernacular language) teachers would be the more appropriate solution.
In the kampongs however, not only is English not widely used, there is also active antagonism to using and learning it. Again this is not a problem unique to the kampongs. In Western Canada there is similar resentment towards learning French despite it being Canada's second official language. To overcome this and compensate for the low level of French usage in the community, some schools have total immersion classes where pupils would spend their first three or more years in classes conducted entirely in French. As the program is entirely voluntary, it is politically and socially palatable. As parents discover the many advantages, the enrollment soars.
A similar solution could be employed in the kampongs. Have English immersion classes for the first few or better yet, throughout the entire primary school years. Introduce Malay only at Form One. Go beyond that and have secondary schools that would teach half the subjects in Malay and the other half in English. Science and mathematics would be the ideal subjects to teach in English. Such a school would produce fluently bilingual graduates.
Aware of the political sensitivities Malays have towards learning English, I would make the program entirely voluntary, like those French immersion classes in Western Canada. Kampong Malays are as rational as those Anglophone Western Canadians. Once those Malays see the advantages of being proficient in English, they will flock to enroll their children in those immersion classes.
Such schools could be the innovation worthy of emulation by other nations who similarly aspire to have their students be bilingual. Such Malay-English bilingual schools are much easier to set up than Arabic-English or Mandarin-English ones as Malay and English share the same roman script. I would restrict such schools to only those who already have (or can demonstrate) near-native fluency in Malay so that those students would not "forget" how to speak Malay.
In practical terms, this was how my contemporaries and I learned English back in the 1950s. English usage was even much lower then, in fact nonexistent, at my home and community. I advocate bringing back those English schools, but site them only in areas with low level of English and high Malay usage, as in the kampongs.
If we were to bring back the old English schools (as the parent-group PAGE is advocating) and locate them in the cities where the usage of Malay is low, then we would only resurrect the old problem where students would ignore Malay.
Similarly, such Malay immersion classes could be used to enhance the proficiency of non-Malay students, especially in communities where the usage of Malay is low.
The panel highlights the many islands of excellence in our school system. Yes there certainly are, as with the missionary and independent Chinese schools. As they are already doing a superb job there is little need to reform them. Instead the government should support them so they could enhance and replicate their successes. Others (including and especially the government) would then be inspired to emulate them. I would impose only one condition for that generous public support and that is the enrollment must reflect the general Malaysian society. Such a policy would also further one of the stated goals of the Blueprint: to enhance unity among our young.
Next: Part Two: Quality Schools Begin with Quality Teachers


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Building Safety Month is a public awareness campaign offered each year during May to help individuals, families, and businesses understand what it takes to create and sustain safe and sustainable structures. The campaign reinforces the need for adoption of modern, model building codes, a strong and efficient system of code enforcement, and a well trained, professional workforce to maintain the system. Now in its 32nd year, Building Safety Month will be marked through official ceremonies, community outreach events, demonstration projects, and school-based programs.
The campaign is presented by the International Code Council and its 50,000 members worldwide through its Foundation along with a diverse partnership of professionals from the building construction, design, and safety community. Corporations, government agencies, professional association, nonprofits and more come together to support Building Safety Month because they understand the need for safe and sustainable structures where people live, work and play.
The four weeks of the campaign provide common sense consumer tips for Energy & Green Building, Disaster Safety & Mitigation, Fire Safety & Awareness, and Backyard Safety. The success of Building Safety Month depends on the efforts of individuals. Consider these tips to promote activities associated with Building Safety Month:
- Send a news release to newspapers, radio, and television stations.
- Encourage local media to cover Building Safety Month activities and send public service announcements to local radio and television stations.
- Public information officers, city managers, or mayors could also arrange to appear on a talk/community information show through local television or radio stations. Call-in, question-and-answer sessions can be part of the program to generate even more interest.
- Invite local media to any scheduled events you plan during the month and post on your social media websites.
Last year, President Barack Obama issued the first-ever Presidential Proclamation declaring May as National Building Safety Month. This year, Mike Holmes (pictured left), HGTV Celebrity, will serve as the 2012 Honorary Ambassador. Holmes, star of HGTV's Holmes on Homes and Holmes Inspections, will kick off Building Safety Month on April 27 with a satellite media tour on the first anniversary of the 2011 Tuscaloosa tornado outbreak.


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New Map of Milky Way Reveals Millions of Unseen Objects
Feb. 22, 2006, Nearly 400 years after Galileo determined the wispy Milky Way actually comprises myriad individual stars, scientists using NASAs Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have done the same for the X-ray Milky Way.
The origin of this X-ray counterpart to the Milky Way, known to scientists as the galactic X-ray background, has been a long-standing mystery. Scientists have determined the background is not diffuse, as many have thought. Rather, it emanates from untold hundreds of millions of individual sources dominated by a type of dead star called a white dwarf, along with stars with unusually strong coronas.
If confirmed, this new finding would have a profound impact on our understanding of the history of our galaxy, from star-formation and supernova rates to stellar evolution. The result solves major theoretical problems yet points to a surprising undercounting of stellar objects, perhaps by a hundredfold.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow discuss these results in two papers that will be published in future editions of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
From an airplane you can see a diffuse glow from a city at night, said lead author Mikhail Revnivtsev of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. To simply say cities produce light is not enough. Only when you get closer do you see individual sources that make up that glow - the house lights, street lamps and automobile headlights. In this respect, we have identified the individual sources of local X-ray light. What we found will surprise many scientists.
X-rays are a high-energy light form, invisible to our eyes and far more energetic than optical light. The X-ray background is more pervasive than the optical haze called the Milky Way, leading astronomers to think the X-ray haze is diffuse, not from point sources. Previous observations have not revealed enough X-ray sources to account for the X-ray Milky Way. This has led to theoretical problems. If the X-ray glow were from hot and diffuse gas, it would ultimately rise and escape the confines of the galaxy. Also, all that hot gas would need to have come from millions of past star explosions called supernovae, which would imply estimates of star formation and star death were way off.
X-ray telescopes that can resolve the emission into discrete sources looked but could not account for more than 30 percent of the emission, said Jean Swank, project scientist for the Rossi Explorer at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Many have thought that the lions share was truly diffuse, for example, from hot gas between the stars.
The new study is based on nearly 10 years of data collected by the Rossi Explorer and constitutes the most thorough map of the galaxy in X-rays. The science team concluded the Milky Way galaxy is teeming with X-ray stars, most of them not very bright, and that scientists over the years had underestimated their numbers.
Surprisingly, the regular suspects of X-ray emission, black holes and neutron stars, are not implicated here. At higher X-ray energies, the glow arises nearly entirely from sources called cataclysmic variables. A cataclysmic variable is a binary star system containing a relatively normal star and a white dwarf, which is a stellar ember of a star like the Earths sun that has run out of fuel. On its own, a white dwarf is dim. In a binary, it can pull away matter from its companion star to heat itself in a process called accretion. The accreted gas is very hot, a source of considerable X-rays.
At lower X-ray energies, the glow is a mix of about one-third cataclysmic variables and two-thirds active stellar coronas. A corona is the outermost part of a stars atmosphere. Most of the stellar corona activity also takes place in binaries, where a nearby companion effectively stirs up the outer parts of the star. That energizes the stellar analog to solar flares, which emit X-rays. The science team said there are upwards of a million cataclysmic variables in our galaxy and close to a billion active stars. Both of these numbers reflect a major undercounting in previous estimates.
The scientists could not image individual objects. What they saw was a perfect match between X-rays and infrared light detected by NASAs Cosmic Background Explorer mission in the 1990s. This indicates X-ray emission traces the stellar mass distribution and implies that the galactic X-ray background comprises a huge number of faint discrete sources.
Goddard manages the Rossi Explorer, which was launched in December 1995. For more information about the research on the Web, visit:
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadian companies are now producing so much personal protective equipment needed in the fight against COVID-19 that Canada is almost at the point of being self-sufficient.
He'll underscore that contention today with a visit to a Kanata, Ont., brewery that has retooled to make hand sanitizer during the pandemic.
The visit to Big Rig Brewery, which has used the federal wage subsidy to rehire workers, is also intended to emphasize Trudeau's repeated plea to businesses to take advantage of the program to get back on their feet. It's his third visit in as many weeks to a company that's used the subsidy to hire back laid off employees.
Today's visit underlines comments Trudeau made during a pre-taped interview that aired Thursday evening at the online Collision tech conference.
He touted the various federal financial support programs aimed at helping businesses survive the pandemic-induced economic shutdown and to promote innovation to help fight the disease.
And he said many Canadian companies have taken advantage of those programs to retool and start producing masks, gowns, ventilators, sanitizer and other personal protective equipment.
Indeed, Trudeau said so many have stepped up that "even as, like every country, we're having to import massive amounts of PPE because we didn't have enough from the beginning, we're now getting to a place where we're close to self-sufficient on that and able to turn around and share with the world, particularly the developing world."
Having a secure domestic supply will be particularly important if there is a second wave of the deadly virus that causes COVID-19 in the fall, triggering another wild, global scramble for PPE.
China is the dominant supplier of PPE. With the outbreak starting in that country, there was a severe shortage of equipment as the disease first started spreading around the world in March. Countries were out-bidding one another for supplies that were often never delivered.
But the Public Services and Procurement Canada website says Canada has still not received anywhere near the quantities of PPE that have been ordered.
As of June 16, 55.7 million face shields had been ordered but only 17.6 million received; more than one billion pairs of gloves ordered but only 42.3 million received; 126.6 million gowns ordered but only 4.6 million received; 20.4 million litres of hand sanitizer ordered but just 7.1 million litres received.
As well, Canada had ordered 121.9 million of the coveted N95 respirators and 340.8 million surgical masks, just 12.9 million and 110.9 million of which respectively had been received. Of the 40,328 ventilators ordered, just 367 had been received.
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It is the goal of the Athletic Department to develop a Christian character, as well as athletic skills. Our commitment to His excellence will be evident by the students' teamwork, work ethic, integrity, discipline, sportsmanship, humility, dependability, enthusiasm, and Christ-likeness. This goal is a cooperative effort of coaches, players, and parents.
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Pastor K. Marshall Williams Sr. has a burden.
He knows it's not his to bear alone, but in his sphere of influence—which happens to be the City of Brotherly Love—the pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church can't help but see lost souls all across Philadelphia.
"The burden of lostness," is how Williams describes his passion most succinctly. "My vision is to share that burden of lostness."
So when Williams heard about the nationwide outreach My Hope with Billy Graham, he did not hesitate to jump on board.
That "burden of lostness" was burning inside of him more than ever.
"There are millions of people out there who don't know Jesus," Williams said, his voice growing more passionate. "My Hope with Billy Graham is an awesome evangelical outreach that dropped on Billy Graham's heart. And that resonates with me and my wife."
Connie Williams not only agrees with her husband's passion for reaching the lost in Philly, but she would also like to underscore and italicize it.
"From a personal perspective it's convicting," Connie said of Billy Graham's urgent call to reach all of the United States and Canada in November of 2013. "I've been more concerned with edifying the women in my church. We should not just be concerned with the edification of the saints but to tell others about the hope of Jesus."
Pastor Williams and his wife recently took part in the My Hope with Billy Graham training event held at The Cove in Asheville, N.C., and took time to express their support for the sweeping nationwide project.
Williams is a well-respected and long-time pastor in Philadelphia's African-American community—he's been the head pastor at Nazarene Baptist since 1984. The church has increased by 70 percent under his leadership and he's also served key roles in the Southern Baptist Convention; most recently he was asked to chair the Convention's African American Advisory Council.
But Williams knows My Hope with Billy Graham far surpasses any particular denomination and gets to the heart of relationship evangelism, which fuels his own heart and soul.
"We might be the only Bible they ever see," Williams said. "But we have to earn the right to share Christ with people."
And that starts with having real relationships with those around you.
"People don't care what you know until they know that you care," he said.
My Hope with Billy Graham will culminate on Nov. 7, 2013, Billy Graham's 95th birthday, with a 30-minute evangelistic program featuring music and testimony, along with a gospel message by Billy Graham. This powerful presentation will be available via TV, DVD and the Internet.
"I've been praying the Lord would send a revival," Williams said. "It's almost midnight. Time is running out. This is the year to see God turn the nation, not upside-down, but right-side-up for Christ."
Individuals and churches will be asked to share this program with their friends, neighbors, family, co-workers—really anyone who doesn't know Christ as their Savior—and after the program to share a brief three-minute testimony followed by an invitation to receive Christ.
My Hope with Billy Graham will also include versions tailored to youth, Hispanics and packing parties for Operation Christmas Child.
"It's time to stop procrastinating," Connie said. "They're giving us all the tools we need to be equipped."
"And if Billy Graham sees there's a hope, that's all I need."
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"Church Audit Committee Report," Ensign, May 1982, 17
Saturday Afternoon Session
April 3, 1982
Church Audit Committee Report
To the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
We have reviewed the annual financial report of the Church as of 31 December 1981 and the operations for the year then ended. The financial statements and operations reviewed by the committee include the general funds of the Church and of other controlled organizations, the accounts of which are maintained by the Finance and Records Department of the Church. We have also examined the budgeting, accounting, and auditing procedures employed and the manner in which funds are received and expenditures are controlled. We determined that expenditures of general Church funds were authorized by the First Presidency and by budgetary procedures. The budget is authorized by the Council on Disposition of Tithes, composed of the First Presidency, the Council of the Twelve, and the Presiding Bishopric. The Budget and Appropriations Committee, in weekly meetings, administers the expenditure of funds under the budget.
Modern accounting technology and equipment are employed by the Finance and Records Department and other departments in keeping abreast of the rapid Church expansion and changing methods of electronic data processing. The committee and the Church legal representatives are conjointly giving continuous attention to matters relating to taxation of churches by the federal government, the states, and by foreign governments.
The Auditing Department, which is independent of all other departments, functions in the threefold capacity of performing financial audits, operational audits, and audits of computer systems employed by the Church. These services are conducted on a continuous basis and include all Church departments, other Church-controlled organizations (the accounts of which are maintained in the Finance and Records Department), and worldwide operations, including missions, financial centers, and departmental activities conducted in foreign countries. The extent and scope of the Auditing Department in safeguarding the resources of the Church are increasing commensurate with the growth and widening activities of the Church. The audit of local funds of wards and stakes is assigned to stake auditors. Incorporated businesses owned or controlled by the Church, for which accounts are not maintained in the Finance and Records Department, are audited by professional auditing firms or by governmental regulatory agencies.
Based on our review of the annual financial report and other accounting data, and our study of the accounting and auditing methods by which financial operations are controlled, together with continuing discussions with personnel of the Finance and Records Department, the Auditing Department, and Church legal representatives, we are of the opinion that the general funds of the Church received and expended during the year 1981 have been properly accounted for in accordance with established procedures outlined herein.
Respectfully submitted,
Church Audit Committee
Wilford G. Edling
David M. Kennedy
Warren E. Pugh
Merrill J. Bateman
Ted E. Davis


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Hi sketchies
It is time for you to meet our new design team members.
I am an avid, happy & dedicated card maker & scrap booker,
and hopefully my creativity does inspire other gals. I have been creating with patterned paper since
April 2003, & really not a day goes by when I don't work on some paper, canvas,
card…or sometimes I just blog, or look at other scrappers styles, or peruse the
internet for papers, brands & all the newest techniques. But still I love some older techniques which
can be incorporated into a new page or card. I love working with whole kits,
but then I love to jumble them all up too.
I am messy, don't have straight lines, love adding stitching to most cards
or pages, love bright, bright colours but then also I have taken to working on
a lot of monotone LO's as well – you can tell I am a Gemini, very versatile I
think!! I also try to add love & warmth to each of my creations.
I believe I will add to your Design Team with my 'inventiveness'
on my cards, I can design sketches for monthly challenges if needed, offer
suggestions of ideas plus I will always add positive comments to other gals
I have my own blog, which I love playing with & shortly I am
going to add a recipe tab …I am always cooking & decorating, so why not add
that to my list of 'achievements'? My blog's address is - http://debisjoy.blogspot.com.au/
I work in media (heaven help me!) 28 hours a week, plus on a
weekly fun, fun, fun Trivia team, walk with hubster and friends regularly,
read, garden, look after 2 aging kitties, have wonderful family in town as well
as Brissie, & rest rarely!
I am originally from
New Zealand but have just celebrated my 10 year anniversary of
living in Australia. I am a stay at home mum to my little boy Sam.
I have been crafting since I can remember, cross stitch, beading, and
scrap-booking + many, many more. My main focus right now is card making
and scrap-booking (mainly of my little man), as well as altered items and off
the page. I don't think I could define my style as 1 particular type - I
try everything and am always developing what I do and love learning new
techniques. I am looking forward to being part of the Feeling Sketchy
team and hope I can inspire you.
Hi, I'm Sharyn and I live in Brisbane, Queensland with my
husband of 39 years. I have one son and one grandson. I am now retired from
full time employment but I did work for Telstra for over 20 years.
I started making cards in 2005 when I walked past a craft
shop and saw all the wonderful greeting cards on display in their window and
the rest, as they say, is history. I have dabbled a little in scrapbooking but
my main love is card making. My style, while I appreciate all styles, would be
classed as cute.
My other interests are repairing and upgrading computers, crochet,
reading and watching the footy.
I've been married to my hubby for 27 years. We have two adult
We live in MN. We also have 2 cats and 1 dog.
I have been doing crafts pretty much all my life. Love it! I
do just about all kinds of crafts.
I was into making cards quite a few years ago...but got away
from doing it.
I got back into it again in the
beginning of January of this year. Can't get enough.
(coming soon)
Welcome to the team girls!


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Heroes, you answered the call, and we can now reveal the top 10 countries that will be participating in the 2019 Overwatch® World Cup, as well as the committees for all countries that have made it through Phase 2: Voting.
Top 10 Country Rankings
Here are the top 10 seeds for the 2019 Overwatch World Cup. The top 5 seeds will receive automatic byes into the Group Stage, while all other countries will compete for the final five spots. These 10 teams will receive full support for round-trip airfare, ground transportation to and from the venue, and double-occupancy hotel accommodation. All other teams that are eligible to compete will receive some support for hotels, but are fully responsible for securing their own travel to BlizzCon.
- South Korea
- Canada
- China
- France
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Sweden
- Russia
- Finland
Your Committees
Here are the committees for all countries who are eligible to come to BlizzCon, as voted on by you, the fans!
General Manager: Mariano "Coro" Coronel
Community Manager: Daiana "Raichu" Pezzati
Coach: Alan "ddx" Salvati
General Manager: Andrew "Rqt" Haws
Community Manager: Jarrod "Frogger" Meredith
Coach: Jordan "Gunba" Graham
General Manager: Dominik "Dom" Göttlinger
Community Manager: Daniel "Surface" Lehner
Coach: Patrick "Wat7" Marwal
General Manager: Vinicius "pOkiz" Zanquetta Costa
Community Manager: Mateus "Portilho" Portilho
Coach: Yuri "Insanityz" da Silva Ribeiro dos Santos
General Manager: Venelin "Vivo" Tontchev
Community Manager: Konstantin "NoThx" Kanev
Coach: Dimitar "Itopata" Staev
General Manager: Justin "Jayne" Conroy
Community Manager: Nathan "KarQ" Chan
Coach: Louis "Tikatee" Lebel-Wong
General Manager: Pablo "KrakeX" Durán Celis
Community Manager: Fabian "Delorean" Cabello
Coach: Angelo "Yiro" Cabezas Campos
General Manager: Huang "Xiaogui" Tsung-Yu
Community Manager: Li "Tutu" Qiong
Coach: Xingrui "RUI" Wang
General Manager: Mario Ricardo "OdinPrime" Guzman Caro
Community Manager: Sandra "LoboMolotov" Herrera
Coach: Mario "Pinguino" Vizcaya
General Manager: Frederik "Huggos" Christensen
Community Manager: Søren "KellerSR" Keller
Coach: Kristian "khave" Have
General Manager: Amged "AmgedOsman" Osman
Community Manager: Ahmed "Drinkiee" Amr
Coach: Omar "Woofy" Omran
General Manager: Topias "Kuhnu" Rantala
Community Manager: Eero "Rockett" Salmi
Coach: Joni "Seita" Paavola
General Manager: Prinderre "DeGuN" Laurent
Community Manager: Mathias "Troma" Szanto
Coach: Quentin "Wrath" Sevegner
General Manager: Izzy "Noukky" Mueller
Community Manager: Viktor "Noserino" Polster
Coach: Julian "ProGi" Maier
General Manager: Konstantinos "Kendar" Gkikas
Community Manager: Ioannis "Drunkenpony" Branidis
Coach: Ilias "iLka" Kaskanetas
General Manager: Derek "MimicOmnic" Kwok
Community Manager: Audrey "ASCII" Yam
Coach: 李鏡泉 "HaRuHi"
General Manager: Vigfus "FÚSI" Olafsson
Community Manager: Melina "QueenofDorkz" Kolka
Coach: Óskar "ELMaestro" Ingólfsson
General Manager: Rushindra "Salbatic" Sinha
Community Manager: Ashwath "Ashr" Ramasubramanian
Coach: Vasu "Method" Chaturvedi
General Manager: Andrew "andy" Bohan
Community Manager: Finn "CelticDemon" Hynes
Coach: Brian "Scrivzy" Scriven
General Manager: Lior "Dawn" Yakobson
Community Manager: Asaf "BubbleGun" Pedro
Coach: Andrey "fragon" Katz
General Manager: Carlo "buddha" Pellegrini
Community Manager: Roberta "MISÂKI" Arnò
Coach: Alessandro "Tenebra" Marenzi
General Manager: MASUMI "みずイロ" FUKUDA
Community Manager: 拓斗 "add0ne" 小野里
Coach: Yuki "Youk" Shimano
General Manager: 황규형 "YongBongTang"
Community Manager: 박시훈 "KOWLime"
Coach: 박대희 "Crusty"
General Manager: Abdullah "Lorpq8" Alotaibi
Community Manager: Yousef "Mcrack" Aziz
Coach: Nasser "ToxiNTV" AlRujaib
General Manager: Leonids "imaleo" Maslovs
Community Manager: Ance "Ench" Mediņa
Coach: Gints "GGMentality" Grasis
General Manager: Kenn "Beagull" Leandre
Community Manager: Sun "megikari" San
Coach: Jack "RagonSEA" Teoh
General Manager: Carla "Souji" Relloso Alvarez
Community Manager: Sofia "Mimelan" Miranda
Coach: Fernando "SanjiG" Gaspare
General Manager: Thomas "Morte" Kerbusch
Community Manager: Hande "MissVizility" Karasu
Coach: Cas "Casores" van Andel
General Manager: Cameron "equinox" Dul
Community Manager: Ayla "Fangetta" Holland
Coach: Matt "Noxious" Sawyer
General Manager: Christer "Iko" Ringelien
Community Manager: Magnus "Lama" Lama
Coach: Mikael "mkL" Skjønhaug
General Manager: Rene "GoochX" Romero
Community Manager: Julio Martín "juliustm" Aria
Coach: Tony "Chou" Chou
General Manager: Julio "Letherin" Vignolo Coria
Community Manager: Maria "Mashap" Hinostroza
Coach: Junnior "Keath" Abad Gamboa
General Manager: Mika "nilavariel" Fabella
Community Manager: Camie "Yumie" Tafalla
Coach: Dathan Allan Keanu "Daks" Rosales
General Manager: Katarzyna "Xandie" Janoszka
Community Manager: Wojciech "Theo" Buda
Coach: Jacek "arek2597" Klajssa
General Manager: Alexandre "sanalex" Simões
Community Manager: Luís "Moove" Silva
Coach: Bruno "GizmomcS" Calapez
General Manager: Robert "Wizo" Lupu
Community Manager: Radu "MicRep" Boia
Coach: Raureanu "ElDonte" Andrei
General Manager: Stanislav "Mistakes" Danilov
Community Manager: Sofia "SofiJonson" Ostrogradskaya
Coach: Дмитрий "Outbreak" Петраков
General Manager: Mohammad "NOTSCAR" As
Community Manager: Salam "ŠÄLÄMØŠÄÜRÜŠ" Hdadi
Coach: Musa "Abu11ibrahim" Kaltham
General Manager: Chun Chieh "TCC" Teo
Community Manager: Nicholas "Caldoran" Tay
Coach: Seetoh "JohnGalt" Jian Qing
General Manager: Sam "TechGirlZA" Wright
Community Manager: Lizelle "VirgoLiz" Smith
Coach: Peter "NOTGROOT" Berens
General Manager: Thibaut "Tibix" Durand Rossi
Community Manager: Beatriz "kaquka" Alonso
Coach: Pablo José "DarkZero" Ramos Alonso
General Manager: Lisa "LIZLIN" Lingvall
Community Manager: David "Snipzy" Sundbergh
Coach: Johan "CWoosH" Klingestedt
General Manager: Sandro "Sharper" Nowoczin
Community Manager: Andreas "BeFroz3n" Dürler
Coach: Aris "LUFT" Galli
General Manager: 潘家豪 "Graves"
Community Manager: 王人弘 "Restya"
Coach: 高偉騰 "kant"
General Manager: Areeya "aumimchun" Manamunchaiyaporn
Community Manager: Aunya "Klarion" Wettayawong
Coach: จิรวัฒน์ "HeadHawk" กะลัมพะนันทน์
General Manager: Tom "Stylosa" Stewart
Community Manager: James "BadPachimari" Lindsay
Coach: Elliott "Hayes" Hayes
General Manager: Analynn "bawlynn" Dang
Community Manager: Vinit "Fresh" patel
Coach: Aaron "Aero" Atkins
What's Next
With Phase 2 of the Overwatch World Cup program concluded, it's now time for Phase 3—player selection. Teams will have from June 13–July 14 to hold player tryouts and craft the perfect roster to represent their nation. Rules and Team Guide will be provided to the teams directly early in this next stage in order to allow them to build their rosters, with full awareness of the competition rules, prizing details, travel and hospitality scope of support, and etc.
Committees will submit their potential player list on or before July 14, which may contain up to 12 players, for Blizzard to verify and approve. The committee will select and confirm the final 7 players and committee members who will travel to the live event and receive complimentary access to BlizzCon by July 26.
Keep Your Finger on the Pulse
For more information about the Overwatch World Cup program, including our FAQ section, check out the announcement blog. Follow the @owpathtopro Twitter, and check the Overwatch World Cup website for updates as we get closer to BlizzCon. If there are any questions or concerns, you're welcome to reach out to us.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina regulators say Duke Energy illegally pumped 61 million gallons of contaminated water from a coal ash pit into the Cape Fear River, marking the eighth time in less than a month the nation's largest electricity company has been cited for environmental violations.
The pumping violated the terms of Duke's wastewater permit at its Cape Fear Plant, State Department of Environment and Natural Resources spokesman Jamie Kritzer said Thursday. Kritzer said the agency has issued Duke a formal notice of violation, which could result in hefty fines.
Regulators from the agency said the illegal pumping had been going on for months. It wasn't immediately clear if Duke's efforts to empty the pond were related to a crack in the earthen dam holding back the coal ash. Duke first disclosed the existence of the crack to regulators on Thursday.
Inspectors are trying to determine the cause of the crack, but the dike does not appear to be in imminent danger of collapse, said State Dam Safety Engineer Steve McEvoy.
Duke did not respond Thursday to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
A Feb. 2 pipe collapse at a similar Duke coal ash dump in Eden coated 70 miles of the Dan River with toxic sludge. Duke has nearly three dozen other ash pits spread out at 14 coal-fired power plants across the state.
The state is now testing water samples from the Cape Fear River for signs of hazardous chemicals. Coal ash contains arsenic, lead, mercury and other heavy metals highly toxic to humans and wildlife.
Several sizable cities and towns are downstream of the Duke plant, including Sanford, Dunn, Fayetteville and Wilmington. Kritzer said municipal officials in those communities have reported no problems with drinking water.
Duke's dumping was first spotted March 10 by the environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance, which took aerial photos of two large mobile pumps at the facility. The pumps appeared to be sucking water directly from a large coal ash dump into nearby woods and into a canal leading to the river.
State regulators went to the site the following day for what Kritzer said was a previously scheduled visit as part of planned inspections of all of Duke's coal ash dumps in the wake of the Dan River spill.
As is customary, Duke had been given advance notice of the inspection.
"This ensures that our inspectors can speak to the appropriate people when we arrive" and view the appropriate records, he said.
When the inspectors arrived, Duke had disabled the pumps the environmental group had photographed the prior day, Kritzer said.
Duke had notified state regulators by phone in August that the company was going to be performing "routine maintenance" that included using a temporary pumping system to lower water levels.
Though regulators had visited in the intervening months, no issue was raised until March 11. State Water Quality Director Tom Reeder says his staff discovered the illegal pumping before the Waterkeeper Alliance had released its photos.
"The state's investigation revealed that the pumping activities ongoing at this plant far exceeded what would reasonably be considered routine maintenance," Reeder said in an email.
But the agency, which is known within the state by the acronym DENR, gave no public indication it was investigating Duke until after the environmental groups went public with the photos last week, prompting widespread news media coverage.
"The incident shows the importance of citizen involvement," said Frank Holleman, senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center. "Had the Waterkeeper Alliance not been inspecting that site, it's likely that no one would have known it was happening, or DENR would not have found it until later and even more contaminated water might have been pumped into the river."
It is the eighth notice of violation the state has issued against Duke in less than a month.
The first two, issued Feb. 28, were related to the Dan River spill. On March 3, regulators cited five Duke plants for lacking stormwater permits that are required to legally discharge rainwater draining from its property into a river or lake.
The agency conceded it had known Duke didn't have the required permits since at least 2010, but took no action until three days after The Associated Press filed a public records request for a copy of Duke's stormwater permit for the Dan River plant. There wasn't one.
A federal grand jury convened this week in Raleigh as part of a widening criminal investigation triggered by the Feb. 2 ash spill. Prosecutors have issued at least 23 grand jury subpoenas to Duke executives and state officials.
A coalition of environmental groups filed a motion in court Thursday to intervene in the state's enforcement actions against Duke for pollution problems at the company's Dan River ash dump. It is the latest effort by groups that say the state hasn't done enough to force Duke to clean up its pollution.
"Obviously the local community and conservationists can't count on DENR to do the right thing. And so we want to be there to be sure that DENR does do the right thing — that their feet and Duke's feet are held to the fire," Holleman said.


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FirstRain, an analytics software company that provides personalized, real-time customer intelligence to sales and marketing professionals, has announced the launch of the first Enterprise Customer Intelligence System.
The system delivers targeted customer, prospect and industry intelligence directly into enterprise-deployed iPads, CRM systems, collaboration portals, mobile devices and other enterprise workflow platforms.
The FirstRain Enterprise Customer Intelligence System is an extension of FirstRain's Business Monitoring Engine. It uses advanced semantic analytics and a range of proprietary algorithms to find and deliver only business-related analysis and content, the company said, which is organized into the highly specific business lines and topics of its Business Web Graph and prioritized by significance.
With this new system, enterprise executives and managers can accomplish the following:
- automatically deliver information and analysis based on each user's very specific customer intelligence needs, including client business expansions, customer industry trends or relevant management changes;
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- access personalized content in real-time, wherever and however they need it, including their iPad, iPhone, Android phone, email or directly into an enterprise collaboration portal or CRM system such as Salesforce.com, Microsoft SharePoint, Jive or Cisco Quad.
"There is a massive change taking place in the way sales interact with CRM systems," FirstRain CEO Penny Herscher told CRM Buyer. "For example, ZDNet reports that 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies are now deploying or testing iPads."
At the same time, the CRM business has matured beyond simply gathering contact data to a more sophisticated approach to understanding customer needs, business issues, opportunities and competitive threats, she added. "What is happening in your customers' ecosystems could affect your strategy in selling to them."
Typical aggregation services are "too noisy," Herscher added, making it difficult to get the precision and relevancy salespersons need. Classic sales intelligence tools focus on company or customer contact data but offer limited customer intelligence.
"A customer intelligence system can make the majority of your sales team intelligent and well-informed, because it provides relevant information about your customers [and the] industry and market forces that are affecting them," she said.
Marketing Automation the Paint-By-Numbers Way
Pardot has announced new features as part of its Winter 2012 product release. These include an enhanced visual editor and form builder, which enables marketers to more easily create high-impact lead management campaigns.
A key component is the new visual editor, which allows marketers to edit specific sections of their emails (header, paragraph, sidebar, etc.) and customize them with a few simple clicks.
Pardot has also added 36 new, "out-of-the-box" layout templates to help marketers personalize email campaigns and reinforce corporate branding, as well as a new form builder that allows marketers to more easily set individual form fields during the creation process.
"One way to think of this enhancement is that you could give a person a sheet a paper and tell them to draw a picture of scenery. But if you give them a sheet with paint-by-number instructions of that scenery, the time to a result would be much quicker," Pardot CEO David Cummings told CRM Buyer.
"We're giving marketers the tools to do their job more efficiently in a shorter period of time by taking a blank canvas and adding the 'paint-by-number' option," he said.
Companies have been using templates from other B2C systems, noted Cummings, "but with the nature of email and the rise of different clients — social media, iPhones and iPads — these templates don't always work. We're offering an easy mechanism to deliver consistent professional-looking messages."
The company has also launched the Pardot Now training program to help customers enrich their marketing programs. These twice-weekly sessions focus on specific features, giving users in-depth knowledge and actionable tips that can instantly improve their effectiveness.
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Customer Relationship Metrics has launched Social Media BI, a solution for building effective social media strategies to improve relationships with customers and identify operational improvements.
With Social Media BI, customer-centric organizations can gain greater control of what customers are saying about their brand by identifying the issues that are most impacting customers. Based on this analysis, they can take specific actions that will spread positive sentiment, while fixing those problems that damage their brand, the company said.
Social Media BI starts with identification of those issues that lead to the greatest number of customer complaints. That data is then cross-referenced with online sentiment and chatter to correlate the issues that negatively impact customer relationships and corporate reputation. Armed with this information, Customer Relationship Metrics then creates a social media road map to help the client execute a cohesive and proactive social media strategy.
The service also includes analysis of the company's current social media strategies and suggests targeted new approaches designed to enable the it to quickly respond to online detractors, while filtering social media data points to identify best practices and areas of concern.


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The festival that Eric Johnson, the lead singer of the band Fruit Bats, put together for the second year was an interesting thing that we were invited to. As we've learned with Barnstormer, there's no way to make the weather cooperate with what you want to do if you're going to be out in the elements and this one-day festival at the Gundlach Bundschu Winery in Sonoma, California, was no different.
It was a tremendous line-up of bands -- curated expertly by Johnson -- and it was just a horribly rainy day. The property that the winery sits on is gorgeous, with a sloping, grassy hillside rolling into the wooden outdoor stage, nestled against more hills and a breathtaking lake. The pissy rain forced the first half of the day's sets to happen inside a manufacturing building and the last half was just allowed to roll outside through the good and the bad, but the crowd didn't mind. These United States, Sonny & The Sunsets, J. Mascis, Richard Swift and Fruit Bats all played during, before and after intermittent downpours that never went away.


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Sites drag ICANN, ICM into court
Two of the biggest porn companies on the net want to put a stop to the .xxx top-level domain, and they've taken their demands to court.
Manwin and Digital Playground yesterday sued domain name system overseer ICANN and .xxx manager ICM Registry on antitrust grounds, claiming that ICM has been "extorting defensive registrations" with ICANN's blessing.
The two companies are looking for an injunction, and have demanded that ICANN put the .xxx contract up for competitive bidding with strict price controls.
Manwin is best known for YouPorn, the porn-centric YouTube knock-off, as well as the popular Brazzers network of porn sites. It also runs Playboy-branded websites under licence.
The complaint focuses on ICM's recently concluded "sunrise" period, during which porn companies, for about $200, could apply to own a .xxx address matching their trademark or .com domain.
Manwin claims that the high prices and allegedly restrictive policies represent the actions of a monopolist, and that ICANN is also to blame for approving .xxx without price caps.
ICM received almost 80,000 sunrise registrations, the majority of them believed to be $200-a-time "blocks" filed by family-friendly companies and organisations outside of the porn business.
The block process was unique to .xxx because it had a one-time fee – every other domain extension charges an annual renewal fee for defensive registrations – but it was nevertheless criticised as a "shakedown".
ICM received $162 for every sunrise registration. ICANN will receive $2 a year for every resolving .xxx domain that is registered in future, more than it receives from any other domain registry.
Fabian Thylmann, managing partner of Manwin, said the lawsuit, which was filed in California yesterday, "uncovers a pernicious monopoly at the very heart of the internet".
The Manwin complaint says ICM "improperly exploited the newly created market for .XXX defensive registrations by making such registrations unreasonably expensive and difficult, and by placing onerous burdens on parties seeking to protect their intellectual property rights."
It states, for example, that companies should have been able to defensively register typos of their trademarks, rather than only exact matches, and that porn companies without trademarks should have been eligible to "block" .xxx names matching their .coms.
The complaint cites ICM's decision to block the names of over 4,000 celebrities for free as evidence that its sunrise fees were excessive.
"The claims are baseless and without merit and will be defended vigorously," ICM Registry president Stuart Lawley said. "They also show an apparent lack of understanding of the ICANN process and the rigorous battle we went through with ICANN over eight years in full public scrutiny to gain approval."
ICM, under earlier management, applied to ICANN for .xxx in 2000 but was rejected. It applied again in 2004 and was approved, then rejected, then approved again after an independent review found ICANN had treated its application unfairly.
For several years it has been the subject of harsh criticisms from religious groups, which think it legitimises pornography, and portions of the adult industry, which think it could lead to censorship.
It also saw a lack of support from ICANN's increasingly influential Governmental Advisory Committee, which forced ICANN's board of directors to overrule its objections to finally approve .xxx in March this year.
ICANN spokesman Brad White told The Register: "Our attorneys are reviewing the lawsuit and we have no other comment at this time." ®


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A round-up of stories on Washington wine from March 22nd to 31st 2013. Read previous round-ups here.
From around the world…
Journal UK writes that Washington is a happy place for grapes.
From around the country…
Wines and Vines writes about development heating up at Red Mountain.
Savannah Morning News writes that Washington is homed to skilled winemakers.
From the blogosphere…
The Gray Report writes about Avennia.
Great Northwest Wine writes about Pacific Rim expanding its brands. They also write about a reported theft at Taste Washington (this ended up not being the case, see the update here), Walla Walla having a dry start to spring, and Bartholomew pairing up with a chocolatier. See a list of their wine reviews here.
Great Wine News writes about Rotie Cellars. They also write about Hard Row to Hoe, Dumas Station, Harbinger, and Canoe Ridge.
Paul Gregutt enjoys wine and food pairings at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel and a Riesling pick of the week. He also introduces Waitsburg Cellars and writes about Waitsburg Cellars' first review.
One Girl…One Glass writes about a weekend in the Tri-Cities. Read Part I here.
Crosscut.com writes about Yakima's push to become Washington's wine capital.
Through the Walla Walla Grapevine writes about Pacifica. Catie also writes about the Dance Chardonnay.
The Pour Fool writes about Paul Gregutt's Waitsburg Cellars.
WineEYak writes about a Taste Washington look at the Yakima Valley.
Lucha Vino books three cabernet sauvignon vintages from Tildio Winery in the same match. He also writes about a Washington Barbera versus one from Piemonte.
WA Wine PR gives wine drenched observations of Taste Washington.
Write for Wine writes about random thoughts from Taste Washington.
Northwest Wine Anthem gives a Friday find. They also give a state of the union on Taste Washington.
Sips and the City writes about new and notable at Taste Washington.
Wine Peeps shares highlights from Taste Washington.
Eater gives just a taste of Taste Washington.
The Washington Vine tastes Bridgepress Rosé.
Examiner.com gives a Taste Washington photo set.
From the locals…
Capital Press writes about Spanish Castle Vineyard. They also write about giving wine grapes a chance.
Puget Sound Business Journal writes about restaurants sharing the spotlight at Taste Washington.
The Bonny Lake Courier-Herald writes about a record year for grape growers.
Wine Press NW writes about Chateau Ste. Michelle's Patterson tasting gallery opening up.
Seattle Magazine gives a Taste Washington game plan.
The Seattle Times writes about a wine bottle maker rising from the ashes.
Writing for the Seattle Times, Paul Gregutt writes that Wine O'Clock is now pouring its own lineup.
The Bellingham Herald says to enjoy those white wine medal winners.
WSU New writes that tasters warm up to reds at higher temperatures.
The Seattle Times covers plans for vineyard expansion in the Red Mountain AVA.
The Everett Herald announced the winners of the Northwest Wine Competition.
Leftovers (posts missed from previous weeks)…
Wine Spectator writes about Drew Bledsoe of Doubleback pushing for changes to Massachusetts wine laws.
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Bones Review: The Perfect Crime
Miranda Wicker at .Am I alone or does this season of Bones feel incredibly disconnected and unevenly told? Surely, I can't be the only one seeing this, right? Please tell me I'm not alone.
While there have been some standout episodes in Bones season 8, there have been far more installments where perhaps most of the script never should've made it out of the writer's room.
"The Shot in the Dark?" It felt more like a shoot and a miss to me.
Tonight started out in a decent place and quickly devolved into something that only sort of resembles the show we love.
This season has been about seeing Booth and Bones as a couple instead of just partners, so their fight, while ridiculous and perhaps overblown, seemed normal. Couples don't agree all the time. They argue. Sometimes about things like one person being more spontaneous than the other. That totally happens. It felt like we were seeing a different side of the two of them than the typical, happy couple who gets along all the time. I can accept and even welcome that.
But the minute Bones stormed out the door in such an over-dramatic fashion, it was clear that the only purpose their fight served was as a way to get her back to the Jeffersonian and for Booth to come and find her on the floor of the bone room. That's it. And that's the point at which this episode took a nosedive.
I went into this episode knowing we would see Bones have conversations with her mother, and several of those are on the Bones quotes page. But I had no idea what those conversations would entail, or that the scenes would be so...flashy. I actually chuckled when Bones tore open the door to the living room and tumbled into the light. I don't think that was the writers' intended response at all.
I don't doubt that people who have near-death experiences walk away from said experiences changed people. I'm truly okay taking peoples' word for it that they have been changed by said experiences. But it felt like Christine said to Brennan, "Hey, you know? You can use your heart again instead of just your head. It's cool."
Actually, that's almost exactly what she said:
Christine: The advice I gave you back then, use your head, be rational, don't let your heart lead you, use your brain. That allowed you to survive, and it held true. But I have another piece of advice for you. It's time for you to find some of that little girl that you locked away so deep inside yourself.
Bones: Why?
Christine: Because it's not about surviving anymore. It's about flourishing. It's about living a full life. | permalink
Yes, we want Brennan to live a full life, to flourish. But Brennan would probably say that she has lived a full life and is flourishing. The rest of us would also say that over time and through her relationships with Angela, Booth, Christine, and everyone else at the Jeffersonian, Brennan has found parts of that girl she tucked away when her parents left so suddenly.
While her parents' disappearance no doubt caused severe emotional trauma, I've always sort of assumed that Brennan was always overly rational and incredibly intelligent and didn't just become that way overnight. To hear her mother tell it, Brennan was just a normal, average teenager crushing on boys, planning her next outfit, and getting into trouble and then suddenly became a genius devoted to her studies and nothing else because her mother's last words were to use her brain instead of her heart.
I know she turned to books as a way to cope with her time in foster homes, but this episode just rewrote history.
I actually liked the science of this week's case. Hal, the security guard, and Brennan were both shot but no bullets were found upon examination. After Brennan described the wound as being cold, Hodgins posited that someone had figured out how to make and shoot frozen bullets, determining that they were made from blood after Brennan had a reaction to foreign antigens in her system.
We also got the return of Agent Sparling and the reveal that shortly after breaking up with Daisy, she and Sweets went out a few times and slept together and he never called. I think there's potential for the two of them and I wouldn't mind seeing more of her. She's a likable enough character so far.
The major complaint with this episode - and it's an enormous complaint - is that it was and is an attempt to completely rewrite Brennan's character. It undoes everything we know and love about the rational side of Bones and flies in the face of all the small, subtle changes we've watched her make over 8 seasons all because she had a conversation with her mother while she flat-lined on a table in an operating room.
She'll suddenly become emotional and sentimental and while she as a character is capable of changing, this was arguably the worst way to bring about said changes. Because her late mother said so.
Dear Shark, Consider yourself jumped. Sincerely, Bones.
What did you think of "The Shot In The Dark?" Do you think this was an attempt to rewrite Brennan's character or speed up her development?
Miranda Wicker was a Staff Writer for TV Fanatic. She retired in 2017. Follow her on Twitter.


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The B.C. government has launched a broad reorganization of its array of self-regulating medical professions, aimed at simplifying them and making them more independent.
In B.C. there are currently 20 health professional colleges, which the province is proposing to reduce to five, directed by B.C. government appointees rather than member elections. A public consultation period was launched Wednesday, to be completed in January.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons, College of Nursing Professionals and College of Pharmacists would be retained, with a separate boards for dental surgeons, dental hygienists, dental technicians and denturists combined into a single college of oral health. A fifth college of health and care professions is proposed to represent the rest of the professions now governed separately.
Some medical colleges are too small to handle self-regulation, @adriandix says #bcleg #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/7HeVH8ljfG
— Tom Fletcher (@tomfletcherbc) November 27, 2019
Current B.C. colleges regulate chiropractors, dietitians, massage therapists, physicians and surgeons, midwives, naturopaths, nurses, occupational therapists, opticians, optometrists, pharmacists, physical therapists, podiatric surgeons, psychologists, speech and hearing therapists and practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine.
Dix said professional associations such as the Doctors of B.C. are not affected by the reorganization of regulatory colleges.
"These changes will help ensure health professions are regulated more thoroughly and transparently, so that they are providing British Columbians with the best care when they need it most," Dix said.
Based on the issues raised in the B.C. College of Dental Surgeons review released in April, which found that its board had become focused on protecting dentists from complaints rather than protecting the public, the reforms would eliminate elections, with half the appointees from the profession and the other half representing the public.
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Dix said B.C. midwives have already indicated a willingness to join the nurses' college, and other small groups recognize that they don't have enough members to afford a registrar, office and ability to handle complaints.
The health ministry is conducting a consultation until Jan. 10, 2020, with an online survey. Submissions can also be made by email to firstname.lastname@example.com, using the subject line: "Feedback - Regulating Health Professionals".
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